Legal Opinion
Foster v. Day & Zimmermann, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided September 13, 1974No. Nos. 74-1085, 74-1124PublishedCited by 41 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LAY, Circuit Judge.
On July 25, 1969, the plaintiff, Michael T. Foster, received serious injuries while enrolled in the Army Reserve Officers Training Program at Ft. Benning, Georgia, when a hand grenade exploded in his hand during a training exercise. The grenade had been assembled in Texas by the defendant Day & Zimmer-mann, Inc. It contained a fuse manufactured by the defendant Mason & Hanger-Silas Mason Co., Inc., at their plant in Burlington, Iowa. The plaintiff filed suit in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Iowa and recovered a jury verdict against both…
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